The third and final beer brewed during the triple-brew weekend
was a session IPA. A couple of years
ago, I brewed an IPA patterned after my favorite IPA, Bell’s Hopslam. It was never meant to be a clone but ended up
being a fairly good substitute. It was
probably the best beer I had ever brewed.
The problem was that if I drank more than two, I stood a very good
chance of falling over. She weighed in
at 7.5% ABV but drank like a 5% beer.
I set out trying to craft a beer with all of the elements
of “B-24 Hoptologist” in a smaller package.
I basically cut the grain bill in half and cut the hops by about 40% and
thus came up with B-38 “Hoptologist light”.
This one is heavy on the hop flavor and easy on the booze.
Brew Date: 8/8/2014
Beer Number: B38
Beer Name: “Hoptologist
Light”
Type: American
Pale Ale
Primary Fermenter:
6 ½ gal. glass carboy (76 days)
Secondary Fermenter:
N/A
Volume: 5.5 gal.
OG: 1.043
FG: 1.008
Expected IBU: 46
Expected SRM: 7
Alcohol %: 4.59%
Calories: 140/12
oz.
Ingredients:
7 lbs. Briess 2 row pale
1 lbs. white wheat malt
5.6 oz. Crystal 40L
5.6 oz. Crystal 60L
4.0 oz. Carapils
14g Centennial pellet hops (6% AA) @ 60 min
7g Simcoe pellet hops (14% AA) FWH
7g Amarillo pellet hops (8% AA) FWH
7g Simcoe pellet hops (14% AA) @ 15 min.
7g Amarillo pellet hops (8% AA) @ 15 min.
14g Simcoe pellet hops (14% AA) @ 15 min.
14g Amarillo pellet hops (8% AA) @ 15 min.
1 oz. Simcoe leaf hops (14% AA) keg hop
1 oz. Amarillo pellet hops (8% AA) keg hop
US05 Yeast
5.7 oz. clover honey
Wort
- Crushed grain in
Barley Crusher (double-crushed the wheat)
- Heated 11.19 qts.
strike water to @175F and poured into mash tun
- Allowed tun to settle
to 155F
- Added grains to tun and
stirred – temp. settled at @152F
- mashed @ 60
- Poured 0.9 gal. 170F
water to tun
- Recirculated @ 2 qts.
- Opened valve slowly
and then wide open and drained into kettle
- While draining, fired
burner and set heat on med.
- When empty, filled
with 2.6 gal. of 170F water, stirred mash, recirculated and drained
- When empty, filled
with 2.6 gal. of 170F water, stirred mash, recirculated and drained
- Collected a total of @
8.0 gal. wort
- Brought to a boil and
added 14 g. Centennial pellet hops as soon as hot break formed
- Boiled for 60 minutes,
following the hopping schedule above
- Using wort chiller,
cooled to 80F in @ 30 min.
- Covered and allowed to
cool overnight
- The next morning, OG
reading was 1.038 (target of 1.046)
- Boiled 2 cups water
and then dissolved 5.7 oz. in the pre-boiled water and transferred to
kettle
- Transferred to
sanitized fermenter and placed in fermentation chamber with frozen bottles
- Sprinkled packet of
US05 yeast onto wort surface at 63F
- Activity visible
within 24 hours
- Changed water bottles
every 1 – 2 days
Kegging (10/24/14)
- Transferred into sanitized keg
- Set regulator to 16 psi at 34F for quick
carbonation
- Final target is 2.5 volumes CO2 (10 psi at
34F)
Keg Hopping (10/24/14)
- Sanitized new large mesh bag in star san
and then squeezed out all liquid possible
- Sanitized a handful of marbles
- Placed marbles in bag and then placed 1
oz. Amarillo leaf and 1 oz. Simcoe leaf
- Tied mesh bag and placed in bottom of keg
before transferring from fermenter
- Keg would not pour
- On 1/10/14, transferred to another sanitized
keg and discovered that the mesh bag had sunk to the bottom and was sucked
into the dip tube preventing the keg from pouring.
- Purged head-space with CO2
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